Obituary Dr. Angelo M. DiGeorge a world renowned physician and pediatric endocrinologist, died at age of 88 years, on October 11, 2009 of kidney failure at his home in Philadelphia. Dr. DiGeorge first gained international recognition in the mid-1960’s for his ground breaking discovery of a disorder characterized by congenital absence of the thymus and associated abnormalities. This birth defect...

Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is often associated with major anomalies and chromosomal abnormalities. Chromosomal abnormalities are usually detected in 9.5% to 34% of fetuses with CDH prenatally diagnosed and the defect has also been reported in association with multiple syndromes such as Pallister-Killian syndrome, Fryns syndrome, Di George syndrome and Apert syndrome. Among the chromo...

Mauro Conti1,2∗,†, Lei Zhang2, Sankardas Roy2, Roberto Di Pietro3,4, Sushil Jajodia2 and Luigi Vincenzo Mancini1 1Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’, 00198 Roma, Italy 2Center for Secure Information Systems, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, U.S.A. 3Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Roma ‘Tre’, 00146 Roma, Italy 4UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, Univers...

Cytogenetic and FISH analysis was performed in 139 patients to detect the pathognomonic of Di George/ Velocardiofacial syndrome (DGS/VFCS) deletion 22q11.2. An abnormal karyotype was revealed in 2/139 cases (47, XXY and 46, XX, 2p+). A deletion was found in 17/139 (12.2%) patients (14 males/ 3 females), inherited in 3 (2 maternal and 1 paternal). Patients with 22q11.2 deletion exhibited facial ...

In a recent paper [2], G. R. Blakley raised a question about the decomposition of a ^-valent starlike function into the product of two ^-valent starlike functions. It is the purpose of this note to prove the conjecture of Blakley. Definition 1. The function/(z), regular in |z| <1, is said to be in the class S(p, m), where p and m are positive integers with p^m, if and only if (1) there exists a...

a Department of Digital Security, EURECOM, 450 Route des Chappes, 06410 Biot Sophia Antipolis, France b Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II 132, 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy c Dipartimento di Ingegneria elettrica e delle Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, via Cintia 21, 80126 Napoli, Italy d Department of C...

Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Pavia, via Bassi 6, 27100 Pavia, Italy School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8LT, UK Institute of Photonics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NW, UK Department of Physics and Institute for Optical Sciences, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Ontario, Canada Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale e dell’Informa...